alt Hacker NewsFirstly thanks for responding and I wish you to have a nice day. your suggestions have value and I appreciate you writing the article. Perhaps enterprise businesses do end up becoming the fat and meat of the AI industry.
My question which I wish to ask: What would happen to these AI companies if they turn out to be anything but wildly successful companies, both to the investors who have already invested in it and to those who might be investing indirectly into it in the near-future (passive investors, retirement funds)
I would love to hear your thoughts on it!
Thanks and have a nice day :-D
> What would happen to these AI companies if they turn out to be anything but wildly successful companies
I'm not nearly enough of an economist / finance person to answer that credibly, but I expect they'll go bust, and a lot of people will lose their shirts.
... and the model weights will be sold to other companies who will then run them at a profit, and eventually figure out an economically sustainable way to train new ones.
The 1800s railway booms are a good comparison here - a lot of companies went bust, a lot of investors lost money, and we still ended up with railways.
If the AI companies all go bust we're going to have a lot of spare data center capacity!